Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 28, 1887, Page 4

k4 THE OMAHA DAILY DEE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1887. I'lE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERVE OF SUBSORTPTION ¢ Dally (Moeniag Edition) fnoluding Sunday Brg, Ono Y oar $10 00 For 8ix Months . For Threa Montha 260 The Omahn Sunday I p address, Une Y ear. 200 OWATIA OFFICE, NO. 814 AND 618 FARVAM STREEY. W VORK OFFICE, ROOM (5, TRIRUNR BU(1L1ING. ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 51 FOURTEENTH STIREET COMRESPONDENCR! All communieations relating to news and edi- torial matter should bo adiressed 1o the Lol TOR OF TUE BER. VUSINEES LRTTERSE s and romittances should bs addressed to 15 PUBLISHING COMPANY, [ A, Drafts, checks and postoflico orders . we mnde payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPAYY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Enrron. ATl bueinees THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation, State of Nebraska, .o Jounty of Donglas, %% Geo, B, Tzsehuck, secrota Publishing company, does that the actual circuiation ¢ for the week ending Feb. follow Saturday, Feb. 19,... Sunday, I‘eb, 20, Monday, Fe Tuesday, Fen Wednesday, T Thursday, Feb. 2 Friany, Feb, 25, Average... 1 Gro. B, TZ8CHUCK, Subseribed in my presence and sworn to be- fore me this#oth day of l'-lvrumi/ A, D. 18 N. P. FrIL, ISEALI Notary Publie. Geo. 1. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says thiat he 13 secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage daily circulation” of the Dally Bee for the month of Fubruary, 1886, was 10,595 copies ; for, March, " 1686, 11,057 copies; for A pril 1850, : for for May, ' 1856, 12,439 1856, 12,208 copies: for Jhly, opies; for August, 1856, 12,454 copies;for September, 1880, 13,030 coptes; for October, 156, 12,999 coples: for November, 1886, 13,148 conies; for December, 185, 13,237 copies for January 16,260 coples, 2 GEo. B. 1 z8c100K. Subscribedand sworn to before me this sth day of [SEAL Notary Public. THE contractors’ ¢ addled npon the people tled rhetoric to the standing. arter will not be of Omaha, contrary notwith- SENATOR INGALLS is less dangerous as president pro tem of the senate than as lobbyist-in-chief for the railroads ou the floor of the chamber. ——— Tug Republican has an article headed ‘A Case of Blackmail."" Editors are sup- posed to write most fluently about sub- Jjects with which they are most familiar, Cruren Howe of the Kentucky sw: failed to deliver five senatorial votes John Sahler is now a very bad egg. For further particulars, see another column. asaint in the eyes ibuckler until he Every bogus and weak insurance con- cern doing business in the state 15 op- L The Right Men Not Easily Found. There is reason to beliove that the president will have nolittle difficulty in obtaining for the inter-state comme commission just the kind of men which itis presumed he desires, and which the country expects him to select, Tt is ob- viously desirable that the commission shall have no hack politicians m it Chronic place-hunters, such as the great majority of those who have sent in their applications, should have no considera tion. They haye no claim upon the pub lic confidence and would not receive it Very few of them are at all fitted for the duties and responsibilitics of the position Pra I men, having experienee of affairs, and of unquestioned character and ability, who will be superior to any influence or prejudico, should compose the commission, and the selection of such men i8 far more necessary now, when the law is being put on trial and the cor porations will spare no effort to make capital agamst it frora any defeets which may be found, than will be the case in the future, when the system is made as nearly 8 possible perfect in its operation, and its permanence is assured But this class of men available for sueh service arc not so numerous a8 wou!d at first thought be supposed. They are either well provided for with much more profitable business, or are in circum stances that enable them to decline a task which if faithfully attended to not fait to be arduons, The law requ that a membor of tha commission shall not engage in any other business, voeca- tion or employnient. The men are not numerous of the most desirable class for this commission to whom a salary of a year and traveling expenses will be an inducement to give up all other business, vocation or employm yet the members ot the commission would doubtless have littie time to give to anything else. The president is known to have tenderced & position on the com- mission to only two persons—ex-Senator Thurman, of Ohio, and Andrew D. White, ex-Presudent of Cornell university—both of whom declined. Neither could have accepted without a personal sacritice. The law practice of Judge Thurman doubtless yields him an annual income three or four times the amount of the salary he would receive as a commis- sion wnd with much less labor. Be- sides, the travel that would be incident to the service would not be congenial to him. Mr. White dectined for business reasons, and not without some thought of the laborious duties that will be involved. Referring to the matter he said: ‘“T'he man who aceepts the position of com- missioner under the inter-state commeree bill with the expectation of having noth- ing to do will be disappointed. The du- ties will require most of his time and in volve ramitications that can scarcely be conceived of.”” These examples suggest the difficulty the president may find in making the commission what the people oxpect it to be, and the possibility of his bemg compelled to take politicians out nosing Senator Meiklejohn’s bill to regu- late insurance and to protect policy holders, This is all the more reason why tho meesure should regeivg faverable wonsideration A TREE which, according to its''rings,” counted up an age of upwards of 3,000 years, was felled recently in the Livonian village of Kokenberg, Germany. A mu- nicipal tree ealled Omaha will b this record in ‘'rings' if the contractors are permitted to amend the charter to suit their private ends. PrircHETT has received a temporary appointment as U. 8. district attorney L interim. As Pritchett has insisted ght along that it was the title and not the pay of the oflice he was after he ought to be more than satistied. [u the temporary appointment, the ad interim is thrown in without extra charge. A MICHIGANDER who lives at Vermont- ville stretched a pair of tight boots by filling them with raw beans and water,so- curely closing the tops and leaving the beans to swell. This is only excelled by #n envious contempory which is trying its circulation by filling it with wind without plugging up the holes in the hide. THE opposition to the sclection of Gen- eral Keifer, of Ohio, as the orator at the unveiling of the Garficld monument at Washington City next May is very earn- est, and the contention is creating a good deal of feeling, It is charged that the committee making the selection had no authority to do so, and its action will probably be set aside by the socicty of the Army of the Cumberland, under whose ausvices the monument has been erected, It was certainly an ill-advised ch0ice, made more apparent by the fact wwethut Keifer does not stop contention by dechning to act —_ THERE is food for reflection to sorrow- ing bachelorhood in a newspaper item which stztes that the four danghters ot Ignatius Riggin, of Madison county, 1., not only manke their own dresses and other clothing, but spin and weave the cloth of which they are mado from raw cotton and wool. Mr. Riggin is a rich wman, rated worth $250,000, and his daughters are pretty, intelligent, and ac- complished. They live luxuriously m a handsowe house, expensively and tast fully furnished. Home-made riggin’ is the father’s hobby, and the girls sensibly indulge him in it. “What wives they would make " ACCORD! to the New York Zimes, Van Wyck's departure from the senate will be” mourned over by the enemies of jobbery. *‘Phere is a considerable com- fort," says the Zimes, “in having a sen ator who has so little objection as Mr, Van Wyck to getting hiwself disliked by asking troublesome questions, fnd % fe oA pity we are to loso him so soon. It is evident, howeyer, that ho gueans to excreise uriosity until his term actually ey pi Yosterday he exposed o proposed junket” by the select committee on In dian traderships. This committeo has existed for nine moutis without so much as holding a meeting, d . its members now propose that they shall spend the summer traveling at the public expense whereever they hke, with power to sond for persons and papers. It is a rather melancholy comment upon the conditio of the senate that Mr. Van Wyek's ex- posure of the project did not avail to de feat it; butitno doubt reconciled the members of the commitee on Indian traderships to the fuct that they are to wWon part with the exposer.’’ of service and with nothing in view more profitable than the salary of a commis- sioner. . Jandal Holds the Fort, Our Washington dispatch of Saturday reported that the demoerats of the house were in a state of revolt against Randall but while they could talk freely they werd otherwise helpless. Mr. Randall is r peating the same tacties which, as chair- man of the appropriations committee, he has invariably practiced, and which the democrats not favorable to his methods have shown themsclves unable to pre vent. At the beginning of the present congress & change of the rules was ef- fected at the instance of Carlisle and Morrison with the object of defeating the plans and weakening the power of Ran- dall, but that astute and tireless politician found a way to nullify the work of his opvonents, which at the close of the first session he put into effect with complete success. He showed himsclf then by long odds the most skillful and adroit leader among the democrats, earrying his point with a contingent of ouly thir- ty-four democrats who yielded to him ab- solute obedience. He is operating in the same line now, and with the promise of equal success. His whole interest is in the appropriation bills, and ing delayed these to the last days of the session, notwithstanding the appar- cut zewl with which they wera worked upon during the holiday recess soastocon- vey theimpression to the country that they were not to be allowed to obstruct othe business, he arbitrarily pushes everything else out of the way for the bills of whic he has charge, and is thus enabled to de- feat measures he does not favor. How- over selfish and unserupulous Mr. Ran- datl may be, ana nobody doubts that as politician he is both, he is easily the slick- st manager among the democrats of the hous Canadian Mossbackism Wins. Late returns from the Canadian elee- tions prove that the victory of Sir John Macdonald and the conservative party last week was overwhelming. It was a Waterloo for the liberals. The Domin- ion parliament contains 211 members, In the body recently dissolyed, the conserva- tives had 130 members, and the liberals seventy-two. The Rie! excitement Quebec, the falling off in Canadian trade, the heavy liberal majorities 1 the recont provineial elections and various other causes contributed to ereate an almost uniyersal impresston that the conserva- tive majonty would be nearly or wholly wiped out on Tues- day. But the results as shown prove that in spite of adverse conditions Sir John’s hold upon the Dominion 1s almost as strong as it was in the zenith of his power. Of the 0 members elected 116 are conservatives, seventy- seven liberals and seven independents, The independents were elected in con- ative divisions, and will support the try in its general policy. Of the n members yet to be eleeted nine are conceded to the conservatives and two to the liberals, This shows a conscrva- y of ffty-three, counting the indepondents on that side, and of thiriy- nime on any question in which they vote with the 1s. On the strength of the vietory thus won Sir John eau now shake iswarck. But both owe a success to the Catholie vote, Both wude the issue practically one of absolutism. —— Tie Canadian view of the tisheries dis pute differs in some respeets not ouly frow the United States view, but also irom the British view. The Toronto Globe, und other Canadian papers, for in- stance, criticise the bome. government {or its attitude in regacd to the maiter, hands w quite as sharply thay inveigh against | this country. The Globe of Thursday | said: “It is evident that the Dominion must soon be engaged in a very serions | effort to preserve her rights nu:m\(l‘ aggressors on the one hand and against | the pusillanimity of Downing st eet on the other.” There is some evidence, 1t | B “the men now in power at wre prepared to surrender on any may be satisfactory to the | Mored Man. For some time past the serious question | whether or not colored students should | e admitted to Chattanooga university, a Methodist Episcopal institution, has been | agitating the councils of that denomina- tion. The Methodist church has 400,000 members in the southern states about | cqually divided between whites and blacks. When the university was estab- lished there were applications for schol- arship by colored students. The matter | of granting the applic nts admission was never finally decided. At the last session of the national conference of the Meth- | odist Episcopal church, held in Philadel vhia, a special board was npruiu\.-nl to consider the question of admitting col- { students to the univers nd the meoting of this board, held at Cincinnati, scoms to have been precipitated by the recent refusal of one of the university to shake hands with a colored ministe s own ¢liureh. ‘The special board, twenty of its twenty- one members heing in attendance, decided that no apphicant to the Chattanooga uni- ty should be denied adimttance to the institution on the grounds of color, or previous condition of s tude.” It is also emphatieally manded that the local board of dircotors of the university usk for and insist on the immediate resigna tion of the member ot the faculty who refused to shake hands with his chureh brothee on account of his color. Th conditions must be comphed with within sixty days, and failure to do so will re- sultin the board of managers notifying the trustees of the university of the ter- mmation of the contruet. This ver action marks an advinee which cannot be too heartily commended. Its tmmediate consequences doubtless will not be to the advantage of the university, but the church, with o membership in tne south about equ dividea between whites and blacks, and while secking and aceepting the latter into its fold, could not permit considerations of pres- ent expediency to outweigh the obvious sments of just and stand against the majority sentiment of the age. Even though the university should have none but colored students, the duty of the ehurch to take the position it ha done on this question was piain, To have done otherwise would hay a reflec- tion upon its chr do- prope HE site selected in Jackson Chieago, for the final resting pla General Logan, is one of the most turesque and beautiful to be Park, o of it fonnd in and when o suitable e erceted thert its attr be greatly inereased. dition of the monument sh ctiveness will It is a proper con- arrangement that the re- muains of Mrs. Logan all rest beside those of her husband. The monument above the tomb of the dead soldier will commemorate his miitary eareer, and its expense will be borne largely by the members of the Grand Army of the Re- public. It is understood that the Army of the Tennesseo will pr e for the erection of a Logan equestrian statue at Washington. — STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, Ashlard is now pulling for a street railroad “‘Cub, gentle spring, etheral mildness, cub hither quick! " Rushville has vlatted a five acre ceme- tery, neatly mounded. McKay's elevator at Friend down Saturday morning. Rushvillians who talk waterworks color the breath with lemon peel. Hustings is negotiating for the descent system of electrie ) A man named Kaley, Willow county, was caught under s ing tree and lost a leg. The body of an unknown man found in a freight car at Talmage last week. The unfortunate was loaded and went off, Fremont claims to delegation to the claim is rejected and to Pluttsmouth. Work has commeneed on the proposed extension of the Elkhorn Vulley road The stakeholders and drivers poved out from Fremont lust week. Red Willow county does heavily on coal veins in that she trots out a lead mine thr ahead of anything in the stat eorge Stambaugh, a former resident of Ashiand, was Irozen to death near Julesburg, Colo., during the late storm, He leaves a wife and one emld, The authorities of Walioo have been asked to tame the wild character of Sun- day observances there. The anin ght be transplanted in the proposed Lincoln zoo. The leading hotel at O'Neill has se- cured at great expense & clerk with a hundred dollar diamond. The town is never backward on style, polish or brilliancy of enterprise, A lhiyely tire warmed Chadron Saturday morning, and rushed through town with the speed of an approvriation bill in the legislature. A moderate calculation places the loss at §25,000. The Northwestern Miller, of Minne- apolis, contains cmnqlimt»nlur_\' mention of the Nebraska Millers’ association. its member purpose and prospeets burned nean- ve sent the largest Patti concert. Tl he pennant awardec not bank gion, but leagzues President White impressed the reporter a8 the whitest man in the state, with his apron on, The Rising City Independent declares that men in that vicinity squander thei time and credit in draping their “shape This is one of the dubious blessings of evolution, A few generations ago nine tailors were required to make a wman, One is ample sufliciency nowadays, Frontier county is torn in two by a county seat war. Stockville and Curtis are the candidates. ‘The former is backed by central iogation myl pmerical strength, the latter by the B, & site company. ‘The Tebellion is limited in area but red-hot, Boyeotting and bulldozing have been resorted to, and at last aceounts there was an elegant chance for a funeral. The South Omaha and Papiilion Times is the latest duul addition to the ranks. 0. Maylield promises to hold the stock yards end of the concern, and the Haneock Bros. will do the coarse hand- writing in the seat of Sarvy county. This Wil matemally afd in bringing Papillion within smelling range of the stock yards and stiffen the price of lots. ‘The Farmers' union, of Oakland. has commenced driving auils in the coflin of of | Ihave | . Town- The grave: thereabouts, the elevator clique is the foundation of the anion | stone of middlemen, and their profits and measurements no longer stand letween the producar and his just dues. ‘T'he first effect of the revolution is an advance of 4 cents a bushel in the price of corn. Here's to the union forever. The Ord Democrat has made public a mild and mellow chunk of © ‘““to Grover Cloveland, president of the United S dear Sir and fellow citizen.”” The Greeley County Statesman wants Sam Randall chopped down and cut oft' from patronage as a traitor to the tarifl plank of the democratic platform. This is the essence of the de of nine-tenths of the demorratic papers of the state, but Sam- nel elings to the president's ear and pil lows his head on fat commiss ons. pare your lungs, brethren, and bring forththe blaek list. The MeDon: 1of O'Neill clings to the champion belt of Holt county and re bukes familiazity and pretension with dukes us de mule’s heel in action. § the Mac strode throngh the sirects of O'Neill, with thumbs 1n his armpits and a gatling nestiing peacefully on his hip, white: ed peace hovered near, but the horl- ontinueda ominons and lurid, Mean Mathews, of the Free Press, culay a_ looseness of lung and tumbling agility that inflated his head bevond the limited dimeasions of his hat band. Oy und was suflicient to re duce the swelling and_wring from hi bruised mug the wailing cry, “‘For merey's suke, lotup," Eye witnesses at- | test that Matthe neyer flopped as | gragefully as whon hie Durked iis chin agaimst Mac's maulers. 1lis poeners were neatly draped and his smeller wrapped 1n cour; ter. The manly artis progressing. The iroad spotter has long since carned thy medal as thegmenncst creat- ure that erawls on the earth or rides on a free pass. He mortgages s soul on the job, and devotes his en- and narrow guage mind to , defumation and devilment. No d faithful employe is safe from | the contagion of his vile breath Sus- picton and dishonesty veils his vision, | e moves in byways ind shade ws, and is the sunlight. His hand shields the stiletto with which he stabs his vie- tim n the back, ns footsteps are those of the thief and wssin. His wor is masked in the archives of the nead quarters and rarcly sces the light of pub- 1o print. A fow woeks ago two of this were Kicked ont of 1 job, and we note the f terable pleasure. Two faithty on the North Platte division of the Union Pacit chosen victims, The eharges of incom- petency le agamst ion proved The engimeers 1 the spotters hounced them « boust down plottin, honest ¢ Servant girls are searce Burlington. The sexe a rapid rate. Ottumwa exercises grants on a stone pil barrel and tub y s g late to Sioux City enterprise ~ The Catholies ‘of Mason € ing another parochial sehool, ight weddings were performed in Des Moines Puesiday of last week, and pert in in Davenport are pairing at her drunks and vo- addi- e baild- The big distillery at Des Momes has been plugzed by petty constables and blackmailers and will be moved to some other city. R. B. Fienniken has offered to build a 10,000 fifty-barvel roller will at M providing the citizens subseribe to § worth of stock. The butel of Burlingzton car- ried to the supreme court the contest over a city ordinance forbidding the peddling of meat on the streets of that city, te Auditor Lyons 1s now engaged in ating the insurance comj; S Lowa to nseertain it any of them aroe s cepting business from other states through brokers and without complianes with the laws in such sf b ‘T'o the state libr: s just been added a work of gr uty and value, the History of Rome, by Victory Duruy, an cdition de luxe, handsomely bound and finely illustrated. It consists of {wely volumes and makes an important addi- tion to the library Prof. Parker, of Keoknk, has invented a geographical and musical chuct which he intends to patent ana place upon the market in the cast. On one side is 2 map of the United States and on the other a musical composition. It is constructed of various sized picees of wood and the puzzle is to so arrange them that they will form a perfect wap. Dakota, The hog crop is short in southeastern Dakota. A double wedding and six babies is Kimball's record for the past week. Wood thieves are sonumerous at Dead- wood that powder hus been planted in the wood piles Local and traveling nurserymen report lavge sales of trees for spring delivery in the Black Hills country A purchaser has been York for the Spearfish wa and the plant possibl The Aberdeen pubiic schools have an enrollment of 300 since the oegan, The high school will Cluss of six at the end of th schor In the business of the ten Unit land offices in the tervitory, as to the comwmissioner on ‘immigr 1887 opens with o less acreago of public land newly entered, but a larger area ac- quired inal proof during January than the previous year. There were four min- eral applicutions and four mir entries recorded in the Deadwood land office, . Raiienng Motnods in Kansas, To the Editor of the Ber: May 1 oc- cupy a small space in your columus to explain one railroad method of bull- dozing the farmers to obtain right of way and part of their farms at their own price. After voting subsidy aid and giy- ing bonds for several thousand dollars the work of grading is under headway. The right ot way men employed by the railroad company come and settle with nart of the farmers, where the damage is very light, by giving them §20 per nore for the amount of Iund used in grading on the side of the farm close to the sec- tion line; but there their work seews to be completed. Where the line damages orchards, yards and farms to a consider- able extent the county judge appoints three railroad men to uct as commission- ars, who ride along the highway nssessing damages us low as $17 per acre and con- demning from twelve to sixteen lying between swd railroad and section line at the same price, depositing the amount in the county treasurer’s office for aceeptance or uppesl within ten days. All this is being done while the farmers are waiting for the commissioners, who make it & very private matter. *1f not discovered within ten days the farmer is compelled to ac- cept their ofter. In behalf of the farming community 1 would ask, is this justie Isit la And cau & lm‘hl‘\ llI:Avu ’nu ;\I}Il in gayiug for what and to whom hg sha nh:lxs mi that he lmx earned by the sweat of his brow? Someof my neigh- bors have sued for damages. When the matter is settled you may hear from me sgaln, A VioT iy Kansas. found in New ter works bonds will be built as soon as ol yoar. 1 States jorted | to give lus personal LYNCHINGS 1N LEADVILLE. Two Timely Hanginges by Vigilants for the 8ake of Peace. REVOLVER REFORMING RULE Jim Frodsham's Ferocious Fight for Life—Sad Fate of a ‘‘Tender foot"—Weird Scene in a Jail. —Days Gone By. Matt Rix in New York Star: When the first and only lynching in the camp occurred I was the city editor of a pre- tentions daily in Leadville. Everybody was so busy digging out silver or other- wise making money that he hadn't time attention to needed Pat Kelly was chief of police. tinguished for the political virtue so reverenced in modern times of standing by his friends. And he had many. “Big Ed Burns,"' the Chieago outlaw, was his Pythias Burns' viet'ms are more numerous to tradition than those of either “Bat” Mast nor “Doc” Halliday., Kelly’s saloon on State strect was the rendezvous of an in- comparable gang when the notorious Ji Frodsham, of Wyoming, came o the azmp, and all around It weré dens erowded with confidence men, pick- pockets and highwaymen. Up and down the street a thousand itinerant bull and mule whackers caroused every night parting with sonse and purse befor morning. Leadville rapidly became the meeca of robbers as well us murderers, Young men of shiftless ways and good conucctions in the cust were insensibly Wi into the vicious swim. TENDERFOOT FOOTIPADS. Among these was Charles Stewart, a fair-haired yonth eighteen years old. Impoverished and friendless, he one day met a congenial highw an, who opened up to him the possibilities of the road agent profession, and Stewart joined it, scarchly realizing the gravity of the step. The footpad became the picturesque suceoss of the hour. He was unreeognizable by day and omni- present by mght, Citizens were **held up”in the very glare of the gaslights, until no man who had a cabin distant from the center of the eamp was consid- ered of sound mind if he did not take the middle of the road after sunset, with pistol in hand, and run at the first sound of a footfall. Meanwhile Frodsham had found an cedingly profitable pursuit. Within a few weeks he had earned ror himself the distinetion of being the most intrepid lot jumper that eyer contested the sover- eign right of a squatter in Colorado. Under the shelter of a legal controversy between the settlers and the owners of the mining doman, he was driving peo- ple from their houses at the point of the shotgun, and selling the titles which he ussumed to the highest bidder. His dar- ing appalled every one with whom he came in contact. When the exodus was tardy he shot, and often with effect. REAL ESTATE BOOM. 25x100 feet were increasing in value from $200 to $300 a we The city site was originally two placer claims, owned respectively by virtue of purchase by Stev & Leiter of the iron mine,and the Harrison Smelting works. The 5 atters maint iu(»tl!l]l«;;§|u1\|i|\in 7 laws AL 55T vest the vght af thils to the Super- ficial area in the owners of a placer tract which was not to ull practical in- tents and purposes, a_placer mine, and set up possession as nine points of the w, which they obeyed. The purchasers contended that the zood faith of their in- vestments and the undoubted placer qualities of the gravel underlying the city amplitied their titles. The wealthier specnlators of Leadville, advised by the loeal lending authorities, suvported the syndicate owners to the extent of buying lot claims at $25 each, w! the remote in many instances of securing i Among these mvestors were Tabor; his fiduciary agent at William H. Bush; Simon Yoss, now a cattle king in Indian territory: Hunter & Trimble, the bankers, and any number of mer on the two main thoroughfares. The history of the bloody war that cnsued would make a volume of tragedies. AT THE REVOLVER'S MU 5 One mormng, in front of the Clarendon hotel, Bush’s brother killed a young man named Arbuckle, a nephew of ex-Chief Justice Miller, in a_quarrel over a lot which Bush claimed o purchased, and upon which Arbuckle had built a shanty in the night. Bush sold the lot not many days afterward for some- thing like 000. Its cost, additional to tho human life, was $25. ‘The machinery of the sherifi’s and city marshal’s oftice was employed to oust the squatters There were no legal proceedings in the dispossession; everything was deliber- lone at the revolver’s muzzle. One ng squatter was killed by Deputy I Miller, and Miller was specdily acquitted, He celebrated the event one night by “‘snufling the lights” in a dance hall und sending a ballet through an in- nocent bystander. All this time Frodsham and the wild Irishman, Mike Mooney, were jumping lots, regardless whether o millionaire or pauper held the proprietary interests. Something decisiye had to be done. Lot jumping and highway rob bery nsust be stopped. So the specula- tors, capitalists and merchants quickly formed a vigilant commi The big- gest men in the eamp were its active pro- moters and its adberents to the last. One hundred black eloaks and masks had been made by the wives of some of the mem- bers, when a sturtling event disturbed the prosy life of a German barber med Bockhouser, HERO OF THE CAMP, While he was passing down lower State street toward home one night two figures advanced from the shadowed sidewalks on either side. He ordered them to halt, and when they paid no heed to his com- mand ho blazed away at one with a 83-caliber revolver. There was another and another shot, then adeath cry, and oneof ths footpuds fell. The other led and the barber emptied his revolver after him* People rushed out of the surrounding houses, half dressed, and joined in the pursnit. I'wo blocks away the fugitive dropped in a faint from loss of blood Ite had been shot in the arm. The mob was surprised to find such a boyish high- wayman. It was young Stewart. The identity of his companion was never de- finitely determined. Ste: t knew him as Frank Sunders, of Illinois, but no one ever claimed kinship, and the body was buried in s pauper's patch. He was killed with a forty-eizht caliber bullet, which cotered his back above the right shoulder and took a diagonal course downward. Bockhouser’s revolver was a thirty-two, and Stewart’s wound w made by a thirty-two caliber ball. The presumption was that somebody saw the attempted robbery from an’ elevated window and shot Sanders. Bockhonser awoke next morning to find bimself the hero of the hour. He was borne through the streets on the shoulders of a dozen sturdy admirers with a bowling p ssion behind. A citizens’ purse of 750 was expended f or an appropriately inseribed gold watch, and before noon a performance at the Olympie theatre was advertised in flaw. ing posters for his benefit DIVINING W15 DoOY, The community was at last aroused, and the moment for the action of the vigilantes had come. About 4. o'clock in the afternoon four depuoty sheriffs reforms. He w d Lots clinched Frodsham on Harrison sveaue | Calais, and disarmed him in & flash. = He in- stantly divined his doom. “What is this, boys?" Iynching bee.”’ ‘‘“No, Jim," replied the spokesman, ou’ arrested for disturbance of the peace ““That won't go down,” he muttered, “I'll never see to-morrow’'s sunrise,'’ Every effort to find Mooney failed. About 8 o'clock in the ovening he stepped into the dingy, partitioned editorial room r-mu quivering from fright, and with a halting speech went on to tell me that everything was up. He begged that I procure him some ammunition, which 1 did and then he left as he had come, in the shadows, to return to Leadville no more. The information he had imparted set me on the track of the plot The new brick conuty jail suburbs, surrounded by pine tree and boulders, and half a mile aws first atterapt to reach it was frustrated about midy masked man and a shotgun. * to face about was peremptory. A second and a third en- deavor were alike unsuccessful, The printers were nodding over their empty composing sticks when, for the fourth time, at precisely 8:30 o'clock, 1 started out With a sinking, disteessed’ sensa at heart. No one accosted mo, soon reached the vicin remembered that a wooden 1, at its entrance, was being reared, and when the black brick mass appeared hefore me I picked my way around to this strncture. I reachied for a match to light my way, and could find none, VE JALER'S SToky. Stumbling up on the sill of the I door, 1 imagined the angle necessary to follow in order to hit the jail door proper, and stretehing out my hands as feelers, I be- gan to move along cautiously. The next moment my arms had half ‘encireled human bot It swung from me and the rafter above ereaked. It was the body of Frodsham, who had been hanged by the vigilantes, With every muscle quivering and my pulse movements sounding like drum beats, I edged around until 1 thought my course was elear. 1 had taken three trembling steps when my ankle turned on a fragment of joisting, and [ almost plunged into a second body, I pounded and kicked the door for full ten minutes before it turned about six inches on its hinges, and the jailor stam- mered: W hat do you want?’ I never saw a moro thoroughly frightened being as he told me the story of the lynching, Sherift Watson had been drawn home Ly a decoy--the report of his child’s ill- ness. Shortly after midnight the vig- ilantes eame and threatened to batter down the door unless it were opened Irodsham leaped around h 1 like a eaged lion, “For God’s suke, jai mo a gun and turn me loose i the he ericd, It was a single, large compart- ment, with an open s between the top of the cage and the roof. The jailer opened the cell door, but gave the des perado no weapon. Frodsham elimbed to the roof of the cage with tt ility of acat. The jail door was then turned and the yeliing mob rushed in. One after another scrambled up after Frodsham, and around over tho top of the cage the doomed man FOUGHT WITH FEROCIOUS DESPERATION, tearing off’ masks, seratching, biting and pounding his adversaries at every turn Twenty men mounted the cage before he was overcome. When drageed down he dead than alive. There was nothing artistic about the job. Only common clothes hne had been provided. A noose was slipped around his neek, the rope was thrown over one of the roof beams of the wooden L, and he was dragged up and down until strangled to death, Some one spoke of young Stewart. and a rush was made for his cell. He pleaded piteously on account of his mother and sister in Ohio. The juiler implored for merey for the lad. There is a sameness about the fury of mobs, though this one represented n higher order of respecta- bility and intellizence, The strangling operation was repeated, after which the vigilantes prepared in disguised writing the names of the notorious lot jumpe and highwaymen who must leave Lead- ville before the setting of the sun, and pinned it on the back of the dead Frod- sham. They took their time, remaining at the juil two hours and three-quarters. That” morning Puat Kelly's place was barracaded; the desperadoes threatened to destroy the city; the militia was called out and the greatest excitement prevailed. In a week it had died ont, and with twu exceptions the threatened men had fled. One of them is now an Alderman there. From that memorable day to this not a lot has been jumped nor a high bery been committed in L the 100 vigilantes fourteen have met vio- lent deaths, twenty have died from ox- cesses, and moro than thirty have lapsed from conditions of riches and plenty into poverty and distress. The fate of those 100 men will some day make an interest- ing chapter of frontier history. R Some Queer Railways. In a book on railroads, published some time sinee, are to be found descriptions of many odd methods of construction and operation,some of which we append, for those of our readers who take an in- terest in the wron horse, and we fancy this includes them all, One of the novel ideas noted is that of grading a railroad through a forest with u cross-cut saw, and laying the ties on “I'his has actually been done in Sonoma county, Califorma. Here the trees are sawed off and leveled, and the ties are fastened on the stumps, two of which arc huge rosewoods, standing side by side, and sawed off seventy-flive feet from the ground. So firm is this support that cars londed with heavy logs can passover with perfeet seeurity, Itis not generally known that in 1 no less than fifty-tvo miles of projected road of the Ohio Railroad company were laid on wooden piles, which were imm seven to twenty-cight feet long, and driven ten set apart, in four rows. No train, how was ever over this track | wooden track railways, on the other hand, are operated in the Unpited States and Canada. One of these, in the provinee of Queaee, is thirty milcs long, and is used in the transportation of tim- ber. The rails are of mulxlr, and the trains Nu said to run over them, with re- markable smoothness, at the rate of twenty-five wiles an ' hour. — Another wooden track railway, more than fifteen miles long, has been constructed on the radings of the abandoned South Caro- Iina Central railroad, in order to carry the products of the turpentine distil- leries to a market. Still more curious are what the author would call the bicycle railways, where the car wheels run'on a single rail. One called the “'steam caravan’ was begun in, between Aleppo and Alexan- but np\mwull.v pover finished, e of "this experiment the rail | ised on a wall of mason: twenty- | eight inches broad. On this one rail were to travel the wheels of the locomotive and the carringes attached, but it was in tended to brace the engime and the last car in the train by “obliquely »laced her-covered whicls, running ‘along the sides of the wall, which wheels were further to serve a8 brakes he asked, “a in the nmps annex to the | voat ear was to be airtight, and three galvanized iron rails were to | placed, two for the track and one for thy center. To the center rail the car was to be attached by rollers, in order to pro vent it being derailed by the w:wncl The riven by a propeller screw worked by con pressed air. Fresh air was tobe supplicd to the occupants of the car by a tul running up (o the surface of the wate: where it would be aflixed to a buoy Finally, a series of buoys on the surfa would mark out the track of the car which n_ease of an aceident, could 1, cut loose below, whereupon it would v« to the surface, A CURIOUS MISHAP, An Engincer Starts His Asteep. Lato Saturday night Dennis Mack, on- gineor on a switch engine in the yards of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal company n this city, ran his engine into tho engi house, writes a Scranton, Pa, corre: doent of the New York Sun, Ashe was ‘o go on duty again at 1 o'clock Sunday morning he lay down in the eab of i engine to sleep until that time. Just before 1 o'clock workmen in the yard wero startled by a great erash at the en gino house, which is a frame building Looking in the direction of the hous they saw one side of 1t give way and Mack’s engine como tearing out of the breach. The engine ran a short distancoe over the ground and then toppled over down \ embankment tvenly feet high. It rolle over and over In_ the deseent, and wad badly wreeked. The workmen knew thut Mack was on the engine, and expected to find him dead in’ the debris. They found him tast in the wreek, and althong | he was held o that it took thom some tini to extricate him, he was found o haye received but a few slight injurics. Mack could not explain whatcaused the enging to start, but it is supposed that he started up in hiy sleep and pulled the throttle open. This singular occurrence reealls the wet that one of the most terrible railroud disasters that ever oceurred in this coun tr ised by anengineer starting his engine while he was nsleep, It w inJuly, 1869, on the Erie railwa t Mast Hope station, on the Delaware di vision. T'ne track was then a single one on that part of the road. Conductor Jud Brown had orders to lieon the switch ai Mast Hope until fast express train No west-bound, passed. James Griflin was the engineer of the freight train. As the the express train approached the station at midnight, ranning thirty-five miles an hour, Conductor Brown was horrificd to sce his train pulling out on the main track dircetly in front of the express, anid a terrific collision was the result. The cars on the express train were piled on top of one another, and caught Many passengers were killed outrig A dozen others were held in the wrece and burned ali The depot e royed. discovered the situation in” tima to from his engine. He fled, but afterw surrendered himself ana’ w the Pike county ughter in September, fended by the late Chief Justice George W. Woodward. It was proved on the trial he had been on duty twenty- four hours without sleep, and the point made by the defense was that while wait- ing on the switch he was overcomo by the strain and fell asleep. He was pur- tially awakened by the approaching train, and pulled open “the throttle of his en' gine bafore he knew what he was doing. A sympathetic jury acquitted him, against the charge of Judge Burrett to conviet, and were publicly censuied by the court. Lhe disaster maufe the name of Mast Hope. so notorious all over the country that the railroad company changed the name of the station to Pine Gro: which it re vined until a few weeks ago, when it was changed back to Mast Hope. The ains of several of the vietims of the astrophe were never identilied. The disaster cost tho company $100,000. - Y A HIGHWAYMAN'S CAREER. The Ingenious Scheme by Which He Managed to Rob a Stage. Albany Journal: Henry White, alias Henry . Burton, the “‘road ageut’” of the southwest, who' was discharged from the penitentiary Thursday, where he was serving a life “sentence on an order of Judge Uoxe, of the United States district court, during the past dozen years led life that would quality him for a dime novel hero. Nothing is wanting in his ease from the alpha of good birth and breeding to the omega of chivalrous dis- crimination displayed m robbing stagoe conch passengers. 1 mily oceupied a good position in y in s native place in ‘Texas, and it wus one of those southwestern feuds for » vindieation of family honor that furnished the wmotive power for ousting White from his position asa peaceable cit- izen and muking an outlaw of him Once banished he appears to have taken qnite readily to stage robbing for a liveli hood, and sooun won for himself the dis- tinetion of being one of the most daring and successful mml and stage conch robber in_ the west. He began operations in his native state, and was doing a very good busimess there, when, becoming too bold, he fell into the clutehes of some of Uncle Sum's retainers and was sentenced to lifo imprisonment. After serving u while he was pardoned by President Hayes, and instead of reforming he returned to the west and his “road” business. In Sep- tember, 881, he “held up” the Alamosa and Pueblo stage in Colorado, and it was for this little picce of work that he ro- ceived the sentence from which he has just been released, His **holding up” this stage was char- acteristic of h»riurmg. He was short of funds and withoat companions,but gaug- ing his risk by the traditional courage of travelors he built an army of dummies and screened them in the bushes at the side of the road and urmed them with stick en the conch arrive general i command of the dummy army he called for an unconditional surrender of the conch. ‘Lhere were sixteen pass sengers in the stage, five of whom were armed, but none were prepared to strug- gle against such “overwhelming odds” and surrendered. With all the pas guis 2l i mercy, White,with the Iry of @ regalur tan cont hero, declined (6 toueh their personal property, but con- tented himself with rifling the mail bags ot #160--which he took to pay the luwyer who defended him on a former occasion. Not loug after this he was in Pueblo, when the city marshul recognized and arrested him, The attorney general, learning of his arrest and the eircun- stances of the erime, was satisfied that the prisoner must be. White, or Burton, as he was known at the time. IHe was Lield to auswer on informatlon filed by the trict attorney, tried, and sentenced for life. On October 11 he was removed from the government prison at Laranie io the Detroit house of correction, the anthorities fearing a rescue. On June 3, 1432 the authorities re 1 him to the Albny penitentiary for still groater se- ourity. A short time ago some friends of the prisonoer renewed their cfforts to ob- gine White 1869 A single rail or bicycle road has also been built in the United St und was in operation at Phaenixville, Pa., in 1870, Since that dato & two-wheeled locomos tive has been made in Gloucester, N. J., for an clevated rail road in Atlanta, Ga With these bicyele engines may be com- pared the railway velocipedes, many of which, we learn, are used on weslern railroads. ese, which have s wheel on each track, can be propelled by the feet and hands of the ridey at the rate of twenty miles ap hour. v&n 1876, at Paris, one Dr. La Combe exhibited the model of a submarine rail- way which he proposed to lay on the bot- tom of the channel between Dover and On & road bed of concrete, tain his release, and the case was placed in the hauds of Eaton & Kirchwey, of this city. By a recent decision in'the United States courts the prosecution of & arisoner for u crime like White's can not be conducted except on & regular indic- ment by the grand jury, whereas White's presecution was on information, andit was on this that Messrs ton & Kirchwey procured his “White is & gentlomanly-appoaring individual who resembles a plan, every-day gro- cery cle rather than 4 weetern Hterrol ST — g The peculiar purifying and building up powers of Hood's Sarsaparilla make it-the very best medicing to- take at thu Season. .